| | | Motorized Bicycle Trouble Shooting Use this area to post problems that may arise that you could use some help in figuring out what is wrong with their bicycle motor and what needs to be done to achieve top performance. | Rough Riding at lower speeds Discussion at Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum in the Motorized Bicycle Trouble Shooting forum. For some reason now in the last couple days only it's riding rough from 15 kph - 30 kph. Once ...  | | 
03-02-2009, 10:58 PM
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| | Rough Riding at lower speeds For some reason now in the last couple days only it's riding rough from 15 kph - 30 kph. Once It goes past 30kph it's smooths out and rides normally.. I checked everything and the engine does not appear to be loose and everything looks normal. | 
03-03-2009, 05:48 PM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds It could be a number of things, but since it's running fine at high RPM's I think it must be fuel. I think you are past the break in stage, right?
If so, it could just be running rich. I would say run it hard for awhile, until it's good and hot. Then run full throttle for a minute of so on the way home, shut it off and glide in. Allow the engine to cool and look at the plug. Report back. Black dry/wet plug? Light tan? Glazed? | 
03-04-2009, 03:29 AM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds I took the spark plug cap off and looked at the spark plug and it looks normal to me. I don't have the tool to remove it and look at the end going into to the engine. What socket would do this ? | 
03-04-2009, 07:16 AM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds Quote:
Originally Posted by Mopedamauter79 I took the spark plug cap off and looked at the spark plug and it looks normal to me. I don't have the tool to remove it and look at the end going into to the engine. What socket would do this ? | Not sure what to say. You'll need to look at the business end.
A spark plug socket (13/16"). One lousy one comes with the engine kit. | 
03-04-2009, 09:39 AM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds Yep, the tool that comes with the kit will do it. Once you get it out, it should be from a chocolate brown to a (lightly) oily black.
If you've run the stock plug for awhile, you may just need a new one. SPARK PLUG CROSS REFERENCE
About 3/4 of the way down, you'll see the NGK B5HS, or any of it's equivalent plugs....buy one from a mower shop, motorcycle store, or even SBP has them.
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03-04-2009, 02:15 PM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds Quote:
Originally Posted by Bikeguy Joe Yep, the tool that comes with the kit will do it. Once you get it out, it should be from a chocolate brown to a (lightly) oily black.
If you've run the stock plug for awhile, you may just need a new one. SPARK PLUG CROSS REFERENCE
About 3/4 of the way down, you'll see the NGK B5HS, or any of it's equivalent plugs....buy one from a mower shop, motorcycle store, or even SBP has them. | Well lucky for me I ordered one from Pablo. I have the b6 version of spark plug. I will go to Canadian Tire and see if I can find that deep socket. I will take to carb cover off and clean out the air filter again and see if that helps. The spark is only a few months old so I don't think it would be time to replace one already but then again I have started it up alot under pretty cold temp. Who knows. I'm still learning about these engines. I have learned quite abit from when I first got one. | 
03-04-2009, 06:12 PM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds UPDATE: I found the exact kinda of spark plug I needed at Canadian tire today. I also got a device made for removing spark plug's. It's called a spark plug tool and it's 13/16.
Waiting for the engine to cool down and then I will check the plug and post my findings. | 
03-04-2009, 11:31 PM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds I got the spark plug out and I put in a new one just for the sake of it. Anyway this is what the spark plug looks like that I pulled from the engine.   | 
03-05-2009, 09:47 AM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds So, how does it run with the new plug?
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03-05-2009, 01:33 PM
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| | Re: Rough Riding at lower speeds I dunno yet. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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